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Loading... Infinite Worlds : The Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction Artby Vincent Di Fate
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"Infinite Worlds: The Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction Art brings to those with an avid interest in the future, in art, and in science fiction, a lush, colorful, dynamic record of the development of science fiction art and of the great diversity of styles and approaches that this art form encompasses. Presented in nearly seven hundred carefully selected plates, Infinite Worlds assembles many of the finest examples of fantastic art ever created and incorporates these in a text that details the history and evolution of this fascinating subject." "Among the artists included: Frank Frazetta, John Berkey, Michael Whelan, Leo & Diane Dillon, James Bama, Jim Gurney, Marshal Arisman, Boris Vallejo, Richard M. Powers, Wayne Barlowe, Alex Schomburg, Chesley Bonestell, Jim Burns, Paul Lehr, Elliot Dold, Dean Ellis, Virgil Finlay, Frank Kelly Freas, Greg & Tim Hildebrandt, Frank R. Paul, Alex Raymond, J. Allen St. John, Stanley Meltzoff, John Schoenherr, Herb Tauss, and many others."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved No library descriptions found. |
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The main parts are a hundred-page historical perspective, and a two-hundred-page examination of a hundred leading artists one at a time. . . .
There are famous pictures here. . . . They were made to illustrate s-f stories; they are here to illustrate the story of s-f.
To this extent, in fairness to Di Fate, we must realize his book is backwards. The contents of Infinite Worlds are aesthetically successful, characteristic (or interestingly uncharacteristic), striking — pictures in themselves worth looking at, with less regard for their publisher or for what they illustrate. That is the reverse of what the men and women who made them had as their task. I do not propose it as a fault; I consider it an achievement.
So is the beauty of his book.